Rear-view mirror



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. R. R. PATTERSQN REAR VIEW MIRROR Filed Dec. 29, 1924 ,z NVENI'OR PMLPHE. PATTE may hatented Dec. 2%, ihiffi.

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RALPH R. YATTEMQH, F ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA.-

BEAR VIEW MIRROR.

Application filed December 29, 1924. Serial No. 758,612.

To all whom it may concern: my glass member 8, the apertures 9 and 10 Beit known that I, RALPH Rflnsmnnson, therein being positioned to registerwith the a citizen'ot' the United States, and a resident screw holesinto which the screws originally or the city of Alameda, in the countyofsecuring the stop in position projected, therea Alameda, State ofCalifornia, have invented by avolding the necessity for drilling newcertain new and useful Improvements in holes in the body of the vehicleand render- Rear-View M rnrs, of which the following ing my device easyand simple to position is a. specification. for use.

My invention relates primarily to devices In substituting my device forthe usual to by means of which the driver of an auto window stop, notshown, the screws '11, vehicle, more particularly 'auto vehicles whichoriginally held the usual stop posi- ""equipped with closed bodies, mayobtain a tioned at each end, are passed through the view'oit the roadwayat the rear of his own washers l2 and the apertures 9 and 10 andvehicle, and the object thereof is to provide are then, by means of ascrew driver, a cheap, simple and efiicient device for this tightened,and the device is ready for use.

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purpose which may be positioned for use The position of the mirror,relative to the without any alteration in the vehicle body car-body,adapts it to reflect images of oband which may be easily and quicklysejects located rearwardly and received along cured in its place ofuse.- the side of the body of the car. In descend- Other objects andadvantages will aping from the car the driver may, by looking pearhereinafter and, while I have shown into my device, have a view of thetraflic I and will describe the preferred form. of my approaching fromthe rear at all times. Due invention, I wish it understood that I do tothe fact that the device ispositioned subnot limit myself to suchpreferred form, but stantially parallel with the windshield, he thatvarious changes and adaptations may may 'when rlriving observe trafficapproachbe madetherein without departing from the ing from the rearwithout removing his spirit of my invention. attention from the roadahead, thereby In the drawings accompanying and formavoiding anypossibility of accident. ing a part hereof: Having described myinvention, what I ig. 1 is a fragmentary perspective View claim is:

of a vehicieequip'ped with a closed body 1. The combination with avehicle-body showing my device positioned for use. and'a window thereof,of a rear view mirror Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my devicecomprising. a --strip of reflective material detached'fromits place ofuse. mounted within said window and constitut- Fig. 3.. is a section onthe line 3-3 of ing astop therefor. Fig. 2, also showing the method ofsecuring 2. The combination with a closed vehiclemy device in positionfor use. body and a window thereof, of a rear'view I Referring to thedrawings, 5 indicates thexmirror comprising a strip of reflectivemafiont door of a closed vehicle body, 6 the terial mounted within saidwindow, ad- 40 window opening-therein. and 7 the glass jacent thewindshield, and constitutii'igone i forming the window, which is shownin its of the stops therefor and so positioned as lowered positionwithin the recess formed to reflect images of objectslocatedrearwardwithin the door for its reception. lv and received alongthe side of the vehicle My device comprises a strip of glass 8, in adirection permitting said images to be 45 the-rear side of which issilvered to form a viewed by said vehicles driver.

'mirror. Strip 8 is provided with holes 9 3. The combination with aclosed vehicleand 10, one at cachend thereof through body and awindowthereofiof a rear view which are passed the screws 11. lVashersmirror comprising a strip of reflective ma- 12 are mounted on the outerside of strip 8 terial mounted within the window-opening 59 and receivethe head of the screws 1-]. adjacent to and substantially parallel withIn positioning my device I prefer to rethe windshield of said vehicle,as. and for more the usual window stop at the front thepurposespecified. side of the Window and substitute therefor i. The combinationwith a closed vehicle mamw bifly ant a Window and window-frame toreflect images of rarwardly appruacisthereai", 0f 1% rear View mirrorcomprising a, ing irafic rearward strips? reflective material nmunted'within In Witness that I claim the; fmegoing, 1 the Window-frameadjacent th wimishield have hereunto set my hand hi5 23rd day 0;? saidvehicles and constituting one of the of December, 192%.

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